Fwd: [SEELANGS] copyright question

[Valentino, Russell]

> There is a lot of wiggle room here. If you were publishing a translation of the poem in an arts venue, then you would need permission from the copyright holder. But if you are writing an article about other things and you want to include all or part of a translation of a poem that you happen to have done yourself as part of your argument, then that is close enough to fair use to argue the case. If you were to include someone else's translation in such an article, you would need to get permission from the person who translated it, since, as Genevra mentions, the translator owns the rights to the English translation of her or his own work.
> 
> If you were to contact anyone for permission at this point, it would not be Pravda in any case, it would be the copyright holder. And since you presumably already got permission to publish it the first time, I would just do it. 
> 
> Russell Valentino
> 
> On Dec 31, 2012, at 18:08, "Brewer, Michael" <brewerm at U.LIBRARY.ARIZONA.EDU> wrote:
> 
>> A translation is a derivative work and the exclusive right to make derivative works lies with the copyright holder. One could argue that creating (and publishing) a translation of a poem for scholarly/research purposes is a fair use, but that would bring with it a certain level of risk.  
>> 
>> Michael Brewer
>> University of Arizona
>> 
>> On Dec 31, 2012, at 3:51 PM, Genevra Gerhart wrote:
>> 
>>> No, you do not. What's yours is yours. Challengers have to prove you stole
>>> it.
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
>>> [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of B. Amarilis Lugo de Fabritz
>>> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 1:29 PM
>>> To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>>> Subject: [SEELANGS] copyright question
>>> 
>>> Dear colleagues:
>>> 
>>> Hoping someone can answer this one quickly. I want to include my own
>>> translation of a poem by Evgenii Evtushenko that appeared in Pravda on June
>>> 30, 1961, in an academic article I am finishing. Do I need to contact
>>> anybody for cssiaopyright permission?
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Amarilis Lugo de Fabritz
>>> Lecturer, Russian, Howard University
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